Transition Culture has moved
I no longer blog on this site. You can now find me, my general blogs, and the work I am doing researching my forthcoming book on imagination, on my new blog.
Come find me at robhopkins.net
31 Mar 2008
Volleys of cannons, showers of confetti and even a few dancing elephants accompanied the launch of Transition Town Totnes’s new website at 5pm yesterday. The site sees a move away from the wiki-based format to a Drupal platform (if none of that means anything to you at all, don’t worry, I’m done now). It allows a much better interaction between the different parts of the organisation, and makes it easier for people to see what we are up to. Have a look, have a roam around, check it out and let us know what you think! We’re rather pleased with it…
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31 Mar 2008
Today started with bacon, which made a lovely change from cornflakes and apple and got me ready for the days first session, which was Richard Heinberg, who was amazing and really drew every thing together by telling us what positions that we’re in and how much longer we can go on for like this (as in the oil dependent lifestyle), basically we can’t.
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31 Mar 2008
This has been an extraordinary week, one I feel privileged to have been a part of. The design of the week worked very well, taking the participants on a journey through inner work to setting an intention and then exploring practical responses. In many ways Findhorn was a perfect setting for it as, as a community, it continues its own transition from a focus mainly on inner work to one also on outward engagement and applied Earth Repair. As a laboratory of sustainability, or as Jonathan Dawson put it, a monastery, it provided the perfect venue for the week, a place to unwind, relax, refresh and reinspire.
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31 Mar 2008
The final day began with rain driving on the bedroom window. This extraordinary week at Findhorn had offered us a year’s worth of weather in one week. Snow, sleet, an odd kind of snow I’ve never seen before that looked more like polystyrene pellets than actual snow and that actually bounced when it hit the ground, sun warm enough for people to lie on the grass to soak it up, hard frost, strong chill winds and now, driving rain.
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28 Mar 2008
I missed the first speaker of the day, Alan Hobbett, whose talk was called “Community Power, the imminent revolution”, because I was doing an interview with Joanna Macy which I will post here as soon as I have transcribed it. After the break it was my turn. Taking to heart Jonathan’s request to rethink and reflect what had gone before, I think this was one of the most personal talks I have ever done. Something about being here and speaking here allows one to take risks, to feel held to push things that bit further.
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